Alchemist Quote by Thomas Merton

The artist's quest is to succeed in combining and balancing all compositional attributes and physical elements into those that are purely spiritual. That is…

— Edward J. Fraughton

Artists are prophets. They define the meaning of our lives and point the way.

— Tony Bouza

Painters are amongst the priests - worker priests of the cult of man - searching to understand but never know.

— Brice Marden

The life of an artist is like the life of a monk, a lewd monk if you like, very Rabelaisian. It is an ordination.

— Marcel Duchamp

The labor of the alchemists, who were called artist in their day, is a befitting comparison for a deliberate change of style.

— William Butler Yeats

I believe that an artist working for and representing the Kingdom of God should do the best of their ability to show and prove…

— Daniel Smith

The artist is called a creator...

— George Henry Lewes

Art is not a pastime but a priesthood.

— Jean Cocteau

The history of the creative progress of individual artists shows that, along with their spiritual growth and the increasing complexity of their inner life,…

— Mieczyslaw Jastrun

Do not imagine that art or anything else is other than high magic! - is a system of holy hieroglyph. The artist, the initiate,…

— Aleister Crowley

In the cycle of a great civilization, the artist begins as priest, and ends as a clown or buffoon.

— Malcolm Muggeridge

To be an 'artist' is as much a calling from and to a divine service as becoming a physician, nurse, priest, shaman, or healer.

— Genesis P-Orridge